Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
(0 users assessed)
User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
None
Attack Vector
Adjacent_network
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CVE-2024-39557

Disclosure Date: July 10, 2024
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Description

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the

Layer 2 Address Learning Daemon (l2ald)

of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a memory leak, eventually exhausting all system memory, leading to a system crash and Denial of Service (DoS).

Certain MAC table updates cause a small amount of memory to leak.  Once memory utilization reaches its limit, the issue will result in a system crash and restart.

To identify the issue, execute the CLI command:

user@device> show platform application-info allocations app l2ald-agent
EVL Object Allocation Statistics:

Node   Application     Context Name                               Live   Allocs   Fails     Guids
re0   l2ald-agent               net::juniper::rtnh::L2Rtinfo       1069096 1069302   0         1069302
re0   l2ald-agent               net::juniper::rtnh::NHOpaqueTlv     114     195       0         195

This issue affects Junos OS Evolved:

  • All versions before 21.4R3-S8-EVO,

  • from 22.2-EVO before 22.2R3-S4-EVO,

  • from 22.3-EVO before 22.3R3-S3-EVO,

  • from 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-EVO,

  • from 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-EVO.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
6.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
2.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Adjacent_network
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • Juniper Networks

Products

  • Junos OS Evolved

Additional Info

Technical Analysis